CDRA FOR CAREER TRANSITIONS IN YOUR LIFE
Have you lost your job after a 40-year career, and want to take advantage of a chance to bring new meaning to your life?​
Are you looking to reinvent yourself in the “real world” after your children have left home?
Is your business partnership failing and you are not sure how to re-establish your professional identity?
Are you trying to decide what’s next from your first job out of college or graduate school?
By Coaching through Development, Reflection and Action you will discover professional choices that empower you to take the steps needed to bring the desired change into your life.
CDRA Coaching For Career Change
Life, Business & Executive Coaching from Professional Business Coach & Attorney: Martha Croog
Martha Croog is the founder of CDRA: Coaching for Development, Reflection and Action. She took the first steps to starting her business after an impactful visit at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA where she truly came to terms with the obstacles she had defied in her life. She had recently remarried and given birth to a beautiful, healthy, boy late in life and was inspired there by two healing specialists who encouraged Martha to help women who wanted to do the same.
That is when Martha saw something that she hadn’t been able to see before — that she could, and was ready to help people overcome obstacles just as she had done — as a coach. CDRA coaching was launched by Martha’s transition from the exclusive practice of law, to the consolidation of her mindfulness practice with her coaching education.
As a coach, Martha is dedicated to helping others to break through or reconfigure, obstacles and barriers in their lives by discovering answers within themselves that they didn’t know they had. Shared watershed moments are not infrequent at CDRA. ​​
Coaching Qualifications
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Certified in Presence-Based Coaching Levels I & II — ICF‑accredited training
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Certified in Clean Coaching Modules I–IV, Clean Coaching Centre — Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) approved
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Certified in Advanced Clean Language Training (Life Patterns) with Penny Tompkins & James Lawley, Clean Language Institute (UK)
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Certificate of Completion, Listening to Bodies (Long Distance) — Suzanne Zeman
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Certificate of Completion, Master Class with Caitlin Walker — Agile Coaching & Training Attention Co. (UK)
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Certificate of Completion, Four-Day Clean Language & Systemic Modeling — Adventures in Clean, CleanLearning Co. (UK)
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Movement & Somatic Training
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Pilates Method Alliance-Approved Training — 500+ training and teaching hours
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Certified Barre Above Instructor
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Certified LivFree Kids Yoga Instructor
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Accomplishments
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BA, University of Michigan, Drama and Psychology
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JD, Hofstra Law School; member of the Law Review; taught an adult ballet class at Hofstra University; Admitted to New York and Connecticut Bars
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Practiced securities law in NYC and CT, representing both issuers and underwriters for public and private offerings.
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Started a woman-owned law firm dedicated to the mortgage banking industry—a male-dominated field—in my West Hartford CT sunroom and grew it to a 15 employee law firm in downtown Hartford
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Raised three accomplished and amazing young women while building MCLLC, and then remarried and gave birth to a beautiful healthy boy later in life
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Transitioned to legal consulting and somatic-based career transition coaching practice 35 years after admission to the New York bar
The CDRA approach is three-tiered to achieve your maximum goals. Our Coaching will be fluid but focused on your Development, Reflection & Action.
COACHING WITH MARTHA
Development: What do you want?
In our first session we will develop an understanding of what you want or what you don’t want happening in your life. In each session after that we will refocus what we have developed as your vision or desired outcome in the one before. The change you are looking for may lead us to examine different conditions, goals, desires, directions and approaches. It may also be interesting for us to consider any forces or directives that influence or drive what you want to pursue in coaching. Achieving clarity in the development phase becomes easier and more effective as coaching progresses.
Reflection: Why do you want it?
As partners, we will work together to discover what led you to want what you want. We will reflect on the feelings and insights from within that will support you on your path forward. We may search for, or notice images, landscapes or stories that hold answers or clues. Recognizing patterns and habits that impede, or influence the change you seek, cloud your focus, or obstruct the transitions you desire will be examined. It may be useful to look and reorganize certain memories and thoughts so that you find a path toward healthier behaviors and happier thinking in the reflection phase. With compassionate preparedness for the unexpected Martha will support you as you access what was hidden.
Action: How & when will it happen?
In the action phase we will continue the progress you have achieved in the development and reflection phases. An integral part of coaching is working on strategies or action plans that enable you to test out, integrate and synthesize what you have learned about yourself, between sessions. We will review these inter-session experiences together. New activities or attitudes for you to adopt or mindfulness or somatic exercises to practice will be created. In this way, you will advance, or validate your internal discoveries in the outside world.
The CDRA Secret
CDRA, at its inception, was named for the four most abundant sources of inspiration in my life-: Charlotte, Deana, Rose, and Ari
CLIENT PORTAL
Welcome to our Client Portal! Here you will be able to pay for your coaching session(s) with Martha with our convenient PayPal processing!
Contact CDRA
Are you ready to explore the terrain you've traveled? Are you open to experiencing the fluidity and insight that moves you past the obstacles and fears in your present path—with sustaining resourcefulness? Are you open to the joy and confidence that will come as you let go of what you do not need? Are you prepared to know, and experience what you want to have happen?
If the answer to one or more of these questions is yes, AND you are ready to work with Martha, then please call her, or send her an e-mail, or use Martha’s messaging portal to discuss her availability so that your shared coaching adventure can begin.
15 North Main Street, Suite 100, West Hartford, CT 06107
